C++ bootstrap of GCC - still useful ?

[Paul Koning]

On Jul 12, 2011, at 2:54 AM, Arnaud Charlet wrote:

>> I'm not sure because I don't think we want to compile the C files of the Ada
>> runtime with the C++ compiler.  We want to do that only for the compiler.
> 
> Right, we definitely don't want to use the C++ compiler for building the
> Ada run-time.

Why not?  If extern "C" is used correctly, the result will work just the same, and the improved type checking etc. would be an asset here just as it is elsewhere.

	paul